GOIANIA, Brazil – Never one to mince words, Dana White was plenty blunt when it comes to recent UFC acquisition Brandon Thatch.

Put simply: “Stud. F—ing stud,” White said.

The UFC president on Saturday watched in Brazil as Thatch (11-1 MMA, 2-0 UFC) decimated yet another opponent, taking out Paulo Thiago (15-6 MMA, 5-6 UFC) in a little more than two minutes at UFC Fight Night 32 at Goiania Arena in Goiania, Goias, Brazil. The bout was part of the FOX Sports 1-televised main card.

Thatch signed with the UFC this past spring after an eight-fight winning streak – all first-round stoppages for Ring of Fire, Instinct MMA and Resurrection Fighting Alliance. After his RFA 7 main-event submission of Mike Rhodes in March, Thatch told MMAjunkie.com Radio that he believed a call from the UFC was imminent.

It was indeed, and the 28-year-old product of Grudge Training Center in Denver debuted in August with a first-round TKO of Justin Edwards in Indianapolis, taking out the “TUF 13″ veteran in 83 seconds.

That earned him a ticket from the prelims to the main card on Saturday and a test against a 10-fight UFC veteran in Thiago – in Thiago’s home country of Brazil, no less, where outsiders historically have had a rough go of things.

But Thatch again made his work look easy, drilling Thiago with a knee to the body that put him on the canvas, then finishing him off with strikes until the Brazilian tapped out.

White said Thatch’s win over a veteran like Thiago was especially impressive considering the quality of some of Thiago’s wins over the years – including a knockout of Josh Koscheck at UFC 95 and a submission of Mike Swick at UFC 109. HE also has fights against Jon Fitch, Martin Kampmann, Diego Sanchez and Dong Hyun Kim on his resume – none of home could finish him.

In fact, prior to Thatch, only Siyar Bahadurzada was able to take Thiago out, stopping him at UFC on FUEL TV 2 in Sweden.

“(Thatch was impressive), especially how good he looked with who he was fighting, and what he did to who he was fighting,” White told a small group of reporters following the UFC Fight Night 32 post-event news conference. “I have a lot of respect for Thiago. (Thatch) hunted him down and stayed right in his face. Paulo Thiago knocked out (Josh) Koscheck and brutalized Mike Swick, and this kid stays right in his face and keeps going after him. I like this kid.”

But Thatch believes he may have some more work to do, which might seem strange given his lone loss was a split decision for Strikeforce in 2008, and his 11 wins all have been first-round knockouts or submissions, including the two since signing with the UFC.

“I’m happy with the win, but I feel I got a little sloppy toward the end there,” Thatch said. “I want to take the next couple of months to get back to basics and get more disciplined. I am happy with the win, though. To be honest, I’m excited to go grab a beer. When I heard the cheers for Paulo, I pretended it was for me.”

If he keeps up the way he’s going, Thatch won’t have to likely worry about hearing cheers for his opponent on foreign soil. He’s likely to be hearing them targeted directly at him.

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